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Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
- Title
- Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital / Vivek Chibber.
- Author
- Chibber, Vivek, 1965-
- Publication
- London : Verso, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 306 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. -- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Postcolonial theory and subaltern studies -- Dominance without hegemony : the argument explained -- Dominance without hegemony : the argument assessed -- Dominance without hegemony : the argument in context -- Capital's universalizing tendency -- Capital, abstract labor, and difference -- Culture, interests, and agency -- Interests and the other universalism -- The (non)problem of historicism -- The nation unmoored -- Conclusion Subaltern studies as ideology.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2085
- ISBN
- 9781844679775 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1844679772 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9781844679768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1844679764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012040848
- 40022088211
- OCLC
- 841415910
- Author
- Chibber, Vivek, 1965-
- Title
- Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital / Vivek Chibber.
- Publisher
- London : Verso, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022088211
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2085